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of weight is directed to be made of a certain number of pieces 
of the current silver coin, and can therefore be tested without 
difficulty ; but there is not any test, saving the solitary standard 
in the collector’s office, for the measure of capacity. It will 
be seen that I have given the weight of water of a certain tem- 
perature these measures contain, and this determination may be 
of use at a future period. 
Grain measures.—The largest measure of capacity in use is 
the Adholee, of two seers ; its name means “‘ the half,” it being 
the half of the Puheelee, of four seers, which is not in use. 
This measure is in the form of an hour-glass. I found the 
_ Poona city standard to contain 36,400 grains troy, of water, 
at a temperature of 75° Fahr., or 5 Ibs. 3 oz. 3 dr. 54 grs., or 
_ 144:4 cubic inches; and at a temperature of 60° Fahr. it con- 
_ tained 36,462 grains troy, being 48 per cent. less than an im- 
perial gallon, or very nearly two quarts ; rigidly, the seer is 4°17 
per cent. larger than an imperial quart. It is curious that the 
_ first subdivision of the Adholee is not one-half but one-fourth, 
or half a seer, a seer measure being very rarely in use; then a 
: quarter of a seer, and finally, one-eighth.* In some places 
there are what are called male and female 4dholees, one being 
_ alittle larger than the other ; retail traders buy with the largest 
and sell by the smallest. The multiples are 2 4dholees 1 Puheelee 
or 4 seers, 12 Puheelees 1 Mun (Maund), and 20 Muns 1 
Kundee (Candy); bat in some places there are 16 Puheelees 
to the Mun: and along the Ghats, and in the Konkun, there 
_ are only 3} seers to the Puheelee. Determined by the weight 
_ of the contents of the ddholee of well-dried Jerwail rice, the 
_ Kundee would be 20 cwt. 1 qr. 26 lbs. 10 oz. 12 drs. 16 grs. 
 avoirdupois. 
_ It is necessary to mention that the flour of all grains is sold 
_ by weight and not by measure. 
Oil, spirits, and milk, are sold by different measures of ca- 
pacity. These are all professedly founded on the seer of 
_ weight; but their discrepancies may well render it doubtful. 
_ At one place I found the seer of oil measure to contain 26 ru- 
_ pees’ weight of water, at others, 66 rupees’, 80 rupees’, &c. The 
_ forms of these measures are various. The same observations 
_ apply to spirit measures. The seer of milk in one place con- 
| tained 88 rupees’ weight of water, in another 93, and elsewhere 
up to 109 rupees’ weight. 
_  Weights——The standard seer of weight in Poona weighs 80 
_Ankoosee rupees or 13,800 grains troy, or 1 lb. 15 oz. 8 dwts. 
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* Sellers of sweetmeats have +!,th of a seer. 
